He's five foot two, and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Chein
A Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew
And he knows he shouldn't kill and he knows he always will
Care for me my friend and I will care for you
And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France
He's fighting for the USA
And he's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way
And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the Reds
He says it's for the peace of all
He's the one who must decide, who's to live and who's to die
And he never sees the writing on the wall
And without him how would Hitler kill the people at Dachau
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
He's the one who gives his body As a weapon of the war
And without him all this killing can't go on
He's the universal soldier, and he really is to blame
His orders come from far away, no more
They come from here and there and you and me and brothers can't you see
This is not the way we put the end to war
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